The short answer
Six travel eSIMs sell a New Zealand plan and get most of the traffic for this search. I priced all six on the same day, for a week around Auckland and Rotorua, two weeks in a campervan across both islands, and a month, and I read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $25.99 or 30 days at $48.99, nothing renews. Airalo asks $48 for 15 days and $71 for the month.
10 GB for 30 days at $16 on 2degrees and Spark, with 5G. The only brand here that names two New Zealand networks.
3 days of unlimited at $11, 20 GB for 30 days at $28, on Spark.
Days, not gigabytes, on Spark. $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 10 November 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi on their own sites or listings, Ringo Light from its catalogue. All in US dollars unless stated. Treat every number as a snapshot.
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The prices, charted
US dollars, 10 November 2026. The rivals sell 15 days, Ringo Light 2 weeks. Ubigi's 15 days is 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad sells no 15-day unlimited.
The 30-day plan at each brand. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed. Ubigi's month is 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad stops at 10 days.
Holafly sells no buckets. Ringo Light sells no bucket either: its 2 weeks is unlimited and lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days.
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- 7 days $9.99
- 2 weeks $25.99
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What to do in New Zealand, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from Auckland down through the volcanic middle of the North Island to the lakes and fiords of the South, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The towns have good 4G and 5G; the parks and passes between them often have none.
If you want unlimited for two weeks or a month: Ringo Light
New Zealand is a long flight for almost everyone, so people stay two or three weeks, often in a campervan. For 15 days of unlimited, I read Airalo at $48, Saily at $48.99 and Holafly at $51.50; Ubigi asks $44 for 30 GB at full speed. Nomad sells no 15-day unlimited. For a month, the rivals run $65 to $76.50. Ringo Light charges $25.99 for 2 weeks and $48.99 for 30 days, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick, as I did for each brand. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily gives 5 GB a day, Nomad 2 GB. Ubigi gives 30 GB for 15 days or 60 GB for the month, then 2 Mbps. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed for the whole trip.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day plan. Nomad sells 3 days of unlimited at $11 and a week at $25. Ringo Light's 7 days at $9.99 costs $1.01 less than Nomad's 3 days and $15.01 less than Nomad's week, and less than Airalo's, Saily's or Holafly's week.
Signal in New Zealand: towns yes, mountain roads no
New Zealand has three networks: Spark, One NZ and 2degrees. All three cover the cities, the towns and the main state highways well. Between towns, in the national parks and on the alpine passes, there are long stretches with no signal on any network, and no eSIM changes that. Most travel eSIMs here ride Spark; Ubigi is the one brand that also names 2degrees, which I count as its edge.
The road from Te Anau to Milford Sound has no mobile signal for most of its length, and the same goes for large parts of the West Coast, Arthur's Pass and the tracks in Abel Tasman and Aoraki. I would download offline maps for each day's drive before you leave the motel Wi-Fi.
If you want a data bucket: Ubigi or Nomad
- Ubigi, $16 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB here, on 2degrees and Spark with 5G. 25 GB for 30 days at $35.
- Nomad, $18 for 10 GB. And the cheapest 20 GB at $28, on Spark.
- Saily, $23.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $37.99, read on saily.com.
- Airalo, $24 for 10 GB. Its Nzcom plan, 20 GB for $38, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Ringo Light's 2 weeks is unlimited for $25.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $48.99. For 10 GB that lasts a month, Ubigi at $16 or Nomad at $18 is the better buy, and all four rivals with buckets sell 20 GB or more for less than Ringo Light's 30 days. I would buy Ringo Light for unlimited, not for a bucket. I would rather you read that here than at checkout.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is Ringo's own data eSIM, and I write this guide for Ringo, so weigh that. It is sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For New Zealand it sells three trips, all unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 7 days at $9.99, 2 weeks at $25.99 and 30 days at $48.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
The card to buy it is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Pick by trip
I would buy Nomad unlimited, 3 days, $11. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
I would buy Ringo Light unlimited, 7 days at $9.99 or 2 weeks at $25.99, either less than Airalo, Saily or Holafly charge for one week. Ubigi 15 days at $44 for 30 GB at full speed if you want 2degrees as well as Spark.
I would buy Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $16.
Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $48.99. I would pick Nomad 20 GB for $28 only if a fixed amount is enough.
None of these travel plans does that. The full Ringo, which Ringo Light funds, ports the number you have.
Frequently asked questions
How we compared, and our sources
Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, Ringo Light
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for New Zealand on 10 November 2026, all on the same day, in US dollars. Each rival's price comes from its own website where it showed dollars, otherwise from an esimdb.com listing, and every source and its date is listed below. Ringo Light's prices come from the catalogue our checkout charges.
We compare the trips people actually book: a week, two weeks and a month of unlimited data, and a 10 GB bucket. We read each brand's fair use and speed rules and quote them as the brands state them. We did not run speed tests, so this page makes no speed claims for any brand.
Ringo Light is our own product. We put it in the table on the same terms as everyone else, and where a rival is the better buy the page says so.
Left out: Maya Mobile. We could not read its own prices for this country on the day, so it stays out rather than being guessed.
- Airalo: www.airalo.com/new-zealand-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on the site, network Spark, read 10 November 2026; fixed data from the esimdb listing dated 4 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-new-zealand/, prices in dollars from its own page, read 10 November 2026
- Saily: saily.com/esim-new-zealand/, dollars, read 25 October 2026; not readable on 10 November 2026, figures kept from 25 October
- Nomad: www.nomadesim.com/new-zealand-esim, dollars, read 10 November 2026
- Ubigi: cellulardata.ubigi.com/data-plans-and-coverage/ubigi-esim-data-plans/?destination=NZL&one-off=on, one-off plan list in dollars, read 22 October 2026; the page would not load on 10 November 2026, figures matched the esimdb listing dated 4 October 2026
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 10 November 2026.
Written and priced by the Ringo team. Prices change often; if you spot one that has moved, tell us through the contact page and we will update the table.
